Brave Explorer Returns, Says ‘The Legends Are True!’

High in the mist shrouded Rantanouk Mountains is a secret and all but forgotten world of legendary riches and dangerous creatures of fierce beauty.  The Grafelli people that live at the base of these sleeping volcanoes have for centuries told stories of the Fo’olel a’ tel –which translates as something like “the devouring slug” or “the always hungry worm.”  Even the bravest of the Grafelli warriors refuse to travel along the mountain paths during the days after rainfall.  “Fo’oelel a’tel janto! Fo’oelel a’tel janto!”  They shout. “The slug descends! The slug descends!” 

This mysterious slug, described by the Grafelli  as being over four feet in length and of a bright, almost fluorescent pink in colour, is said to be carnivorous and exceedingly fast. 

Until recently most scholars were convinced that the fo’olel a’tel was nothing more than a local legend, akin to the Yeti, the Domovoi or the Mapinguari Sloth that has but one eye and a second mouth on its belly.  But recently an intrepid band of explores ventured up into the mists of Rananouk and have brought back startling evidence of the fo’olel a’tel’s existence.

Captain Richard S. Castle and crew have just returned from a year and a half long expedition to study the Grafelli people – though, “We only intended to stay a year,” says the good Captain.  “We were… delayed,” he says with grim expression. 

Captain Castel and his band (originally twenty-seven brave men and women, now but four battered and scarred survivors) will present a lecture and demonstration every night this week at the Rimbaud Museum of Wonder and Nature.  Included in the lecture will be a series of colour photographic slides as well as a taxidermic example of the no-longer-mythical fo’olel a’tel. 

 Parents are advised to not bring young or impressionable children.